Shannan Gilbert

(Courtesy of John Ray Law / AP)

Rex Heuermann’s victims

Rex Heuermann mugshot

Gilgo Beach

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Karen:

The Gilgo Beach murders

Episode sources:

1. “Lost Girls” by Robert Kolker

2. “LISK: Long Island Serial Killer” podcast by Chris Mass

3. “The Gilgo Beach Victims Were Always More than Escorts” by Robert Kolker (New York Times) 2023

4. “Who Are the Women Rex Heuermann Admitted to Killing?” by Alexandra E. Petri and Hannah Ziegler (New York Times) 2026

5. “The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer” by Robert Kolker (New York Times Magazine) 2023

6. “Authorities release long-secret 911 calls linked to Gilgo Beach serial killer case: "There's somebody after me"” by Michael Roppolo (CBS News) 2023

7. “Suspect in Gilgo Beach Murders Pleads Guilty” (New York Times) 2026

8. “A Serial Killer in Common” by Robert Kolker (New York Mag) 2011

9. "Short, troubled life of Jane Doe No. 6 in Gilgo Beach case; she had a young son" by Mary Murphy (Pix 11) 2020

10. “Long Island serial killings: A timeline of the investigation” by Morgan Canty, Shaheen Tokhi (CBS News) 2026

11. “The Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer” (Dateline) 2010

12. “Long Island’s Serial Killer; Don’t Teach, Don’t Tell; Into the Wild” (CNN Presents) 2011

13. “Gilgo Beach victim’s sister still haunted by murders, blames cops for ‘sabotaging the case’” by Olivia Land (New York Post) 2023

14. “Long Island Serial Killer” (20/20) 2023

15. “Daughter of fourth victim tied to accused Gilgo Beach killer hopes to finally achieve justice for murdered mom” by Kevin Sheehan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon (New York Post) 2024

16. “What We Know About the Gilgo Beach Victims” by Hurubie Meko (New York Times) 2023

17. “What Happened to Shannan?” by Robert Kolker (New York Times) 2026

18. “Sandra Costilla aka Sandra Cutello” (Crime Timelines)

19. “First Lost, Then Murdered” by Robert Kolker (Slate) 2013

20. “Who are the victims of admitted Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann?” by Emily Shapiro (ABC News) 2026

21. “‘Unintended hero.’ A mother’s quest to find her daughter led to the eventual arrest of suspect in Gilgo Beach serial killings” by Ray Sanchez (CNN) 2024

22. “For the first time, daughter of Long Island serial killer victim from Maine speaks out” by Eric Russell (Press Herald) 2020

23. “87 Chilling Details: Alleged Gilgo Beach Serial Killer’s Checklist Revealed” (Newsweek) 2024

24. “What to know about the lawsuit against Rex Heuermann and his family” by Adeja Shivonne (Fox5NY) 2026

25. “‘He knew what I looked like’: Victim’s sister recalls Gilgo suspect’s voice” by Mary Murphy (Pix11) 2023

26. Rex Heuermann Gilgo Beach murder

27. “Suspect in Gilgo Beach Killings Led a Life of Chaos and Control” by Andy Newman and Nate Schweber (New York Times) 2023

28. “Gilgo Beach serial killings” (Britannica)

Georgia:

The Great Diamond Hoax

Episode sources:

1. “The American Golconda” by A.J. Liebling (The New Yorker) 1940

2. “The Great Diamond Hoax: A Deliberate and Oddly Planned Masterpiece of Roguery” by J. Kingston Pierce (Crime Reads) 2022

3. “Boomtown, 1870s: Decade of Bonanza, Bust and Unbridled Racism” by Daniel Brekke, (KQUED) 2015

4. “Golconda Diamonds” (Wikipedia)

5. “Great Diamond Hoax” (Wikipedia)

6. “The Diamonds of Golconda” (Christie’s)

Philip Arnold

Bank of California in SF

Moffat County, general area where the fake diamond field was

(Witold Skrypczak / Alamy)

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